WorksheetsHIST227 P2
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Medieval Expansion
Western Europe blossomed—rising population,
trade booming, courts and cities
ntroduced the movable-type printing,
revolutionizing communication,
literacy, and education.
Western Europe blossomed—rising population,
trade booming, courts and cities
Printing Press
Transformation towards a literate
society shifted approach to textbooks
and intellectual authority. Copies of
the Bible were especially in high
demand
Western Europe blossomed—rising population,
trade booming, courts and cities
Impact of Printing Press
Printing Press
significant for economic
recovery, allowing West to access rare books and engage in
cultural exchanges
New technologies, scientific knowledge, food, spices, etc
Trade routes also paved paths for diseases to spread, one
of which very likely travelled along the Silk Road
Importance of food chains
Importance of trade routes
Importance of allies
Importance of governemnt
Contemporary term
referring to the outbreak of bubonic
plague that struck Europe during 1347-
1351.
Red Death
Page
Black Death
Keplers Law
carried
by transmission of bacillus Yersinia
pestis from rats to humans via fleas.
ALL
bubonic plague
Red death
Rat diease
Linking of Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn
influenced Earth’s atmosphere
ALL
bubonic plague
Planetary Conjunction
Rat diease
explanations for Plague
1. Punishment
2. Enemy
3. Non-Official Explanation
1. Divine Punishment
2. Enemy Acts
3. Official Explanation
1. Deprived Punishment
2. Good Acts
3. Official Explanation
1. Divine Punctiution
2. Enemy allies
3. Official example
example one of expalination says:
"God sent plague to punish
mankind for sins; sign of
apocalypse"
which was
Enemy Act
Divine Punishment
Official Explanation
example one of expalination says:
"Poisoning the wells and
waters to spread disease far
as possible"
which was
Enemy Act
Divine Punishment
Official Explanation
example one of expalination says:
"Paris Medical Faculty
declared on March 20, 1345
(three years prior) a rare
planetary conjunction was observed"
which was
Enemy Act
Divine Punishment
Official Explanation
Recovery led to new forms of trade,
commerce, and inventions to improve
distribution and exchange of
knowledge
Result of earth 1899
Result of the Black Death
Result of Platos Claim
Result of the Planets Theory
The period between 1400-1700 reflecting tremendous
growth in society, the arts, science, and technology as
Europe recovered from the Black Death
Introduced new inventions fueled with expansion of trade
routes, voyages and economic growth: adoption of
gunpowder, the compass, the printing press
A society of educated
professionals who considered
learning to be an appropriate
leisure pastime
Renaissance Culture
Interested in worldly pleasures distinct from ascetic
Christian doctrine
• Insisted true knowledge was not only obtained from
books
ALL
Mammals
Alienist
humanist
The Humanist Influence on Natural Philosophy
1. For true knowledge, go back to the sources. Rejected
medievalists’ reliance on truth from textual sources of
authority
.
3. With the invention of the printing press, encouraged more
people to read & moved towards printing complete editions of
rare books
2. Encouraged scholars to see for themselves and examine
whether the ancients were correct
4. Advocated notion of bodies as sites of knowledge shifting of
dissection from focus on texts to “reading” the body & raising
new questions
Aims of Voyages
GOD
Make the empire/royalty
powerful
Find faster trade routes
to Asia & bypass Arab-Islamic
empires that controlled water
routes and obtain precious
metals
Spread Christianity and
convert “heathen” natives
Aims of Voyages
GOLD
Make the empire/royalty
powerful
Find faster trade routes
to Asia & bypass Arab-Islamic
empires that controlled water
routes and obtain precious
metals
Spread Christianity and
convert “heathen” natives
Aims of Voyages
GLORY
Make the empire/royalty
powerful
Find faster trade routes
to Asia & bypass Arab-Islamic
empires that controlled water
routes and obtain precious
metals
Spread Christianity and
convert “heathen” natives
Making maps
Cartography
Magnetic Compass:
For direction
Cartography
Magnetic Compass:
